How to Dry Foods: The Most Complete Guide to Drying Foods at Home

This book was very helpful about how to dry many foods and explained the reasons for doing it a certain way. I found it extremely helpful in preparing dehydrated foods and was informative about rehydrating food as well. One of the best on dehydrating that I have seen.

This book is a good reference for my general learning of dehydrating and the equipment involved. I felt it left me still asking a lot of questions and got almost as much info from the insert in the new dehydrator. Its good for a starter book, but I'm ready for intermediate level already.

I was looking for help in drying different foods in a commercial dehydrator I purchased and found this book. I bought 4 books in all and found them to contain most the same information. This book I would recommend highly as it had most everything I was looking for. If you want food dehydration info I would recommend this one.

Love this book... shows you how to dry out alot of food with your dehydrator, etc.. very interesting and worth the money paid.

Don't get too many books on drying foods. Once you have done a few items it comes to the fore quickly what works and what does not. I like this book as it assumes you know nothing on drying foods.

This book was given as a gift. I have not had contact with the person to hear their thoughts about the book. I have an older book by the same author, and was a little disappointed, in the lack of pictures, but think the book is excellant otherwise.

I have several dehydrator books, but this is by far the most comprehensive and easy to use. Highly recommend this as one to have on your bookshelf.

I bought a food dehydrator to make my own fruit leather and yogurt. I purchased this book so I would understand how to dry particular fruits, vegetables, etc. The book does DEEPLY cover historical information about many vegetables and fruits. For example, carrots were originally white, purple and yellow. Thanks for the information. But, I knew this and its not relevant to dehydrating. I would have appreciated a table of information: storage, prep, drying temp etc. More importantly, I was expecting recipes for dehydrating. Not a recipe using dehydrating ingredients in another recipe. I think listing recipes that use dried tomato (devilled eggs)is not a recipe for dehydrating. I was looking for something unique, like say: zucchini pineapple chips, peanutbutter banana leather or apple pie cheddar roll-ups. So if you are looking for recipes this book is weak in this regard. I love my dehydrator. Best investment! Book-useful but not the best.

very useful.

Always good to know how to dehydrate food that is plentiful so that you'll have it for the leaner times. This book delivers solid, helpful direcitons.

I bought a 20-year old dehydrator and Deanna's book (publ. 1979) came with it. So why did I need another? Because it was so well-used that it was falling apart and no amount of tape could save it. Ironically, I read the reviews on her book and, based on them, I ordered it, not realizing I had the earlier version so it appears it is still a definitive guide on dehydrating. The info has been updated to reflect subtle changes in the last 30 years and now includes websites. The only thing missing are the dozens of colour pictures from the earlier version -- so I guess I'll be keeping it anyway.

Use it frequently for preparing back country hiking meals

This book is helping me a lot as I learn to dehydrate foods to prevent waste and save money.